The drama critic on your paper said my chablis-tinted hair was like a soft halo over wide set, inviting eyes, and my mouth, my mou...th was a lush tunnel through which golden notes came.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good ...copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Separation anxiety is normal part of development, but individual reactions are partly explained by experience, that is, by how fre...quently children have been left in the care of others.... A mother who is never apart from her young child may be saying to him or her subliminally: "You are only safe when I'm with you."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The daily arguments over putting away the toys or practicing the piano defeat us so easily. We see them coming yet they frustrate ...us time and time again. In many cases, we are mothers and fathers who have managed budgets and unruly bosses and done difficult jobs well through sheer tenacity and dogged preparation. So why are we unable to persuade someone three feet tall to step into six inches of water at bathtime?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We find it easy to set limits when the issue is safety.... But 99 percent of the time there isn't imminent danger; most of life ta...kes place on more ambiguous ground, and children are experts at detecting ambivalence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »